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Cornelis Corneliszoon (1550–1607), The Netherlands – wind powered sawmill. Alexander Coucoulas (born 1933), U.S. – Thermosonic bonding. Wallace H. Coulter (1913–1998), U.S. – Coulter principle. Jacques Cousteau (1910–1997), France – co-inventor of the aqualung and the Nikonos underwater camera.
Bose made pioneering discoveries in plant physiology. He used his own invention, the crescograph, to measure plant response to various stimuli and proved parallelism between animal and plant tissues. Bose filed for a patent for one of his inventions because of peer pressure, but he was generally critical of the patent system.
1952: The first thermonuclear weapon is developed. 1953: The first video tape recorder, a helical scan recorder, is invented by Norikazu Sawazaki. 1954: Invention of the solar battery by Bell Telephone scientists, Calvin Souther Fuller, Daryl Chapin and Gerald Pearson capturing the Sun's power.
Beyond the intellectual debate, their rivalry extended to personal and social levels. Born later said that Raman probably thought of him as an "enemy." [159] In spite of the mounting evidence for Born's theory, Raman refused to concede. As the editor of Current Science he rejected articles which supported Born's theory. [166]
List of Christians in science and technology. List of Christian Nobel laureates. List of Christian scientists and scholars of medieval Islam. List of climate scientists. List of women climate scientists and activists. List of cognitive scientists. List of computer scientists. List of cosmologists. List of criminologists.
The history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural, social, and formal. [1] Protoscience, early sciences, and natural philosophies such as alchemy and astrology during the Bronze Age, Iron Age, classical antiquity, and the Middle Ages declined ...
Some scientists have a desire to apply scientific knowledge for the benefit of people's health, the nations, the world, nature, or industries (academic scientist and industrial scientist). Scientists tend to be less motivated by direct financial reward for their work than other careers.
As an example of its accuracy, 18th century scientist Guillaume Le Gentil, during a visit to Pondicherry, India, found the Indian computations (based on Aryabhata's computational paradigm) of the duration of the lunar eclipse of 30 August 1765 to be short by 41 seconds, whereas his charts (by Tobias Mayer, 1752) were long by 68 seconds. [89]